he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. uvalde, texas, is where i was born. it s where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. wore green high top converse with a heart she had drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camilla s got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please? wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that? you know what every one of these parents wanted what they asked for, what every parent separately expr
the founders were designing a government for a country whose entire population was the same size. the same size as the population of brooklyn today. it was inconceivable to the founders that the unexplored areas of the continent would eventually include a state called wyoming, with a population smaller than many of the country s biggest cities. and that even deeper into the unexplored territory, they would eventually be a state named by its spanish speaking settlers that would eventually have a population to rival the size of some of the most influential countries in the world. and the economy of that state alone would grow to be the seventh largest economy in the world, if it were a separate country. the founders would have recognized that the 40 million people of california, being restricted to voting for the same number of senators as the 580,000 people of wyoming, is a crime against democracy. we long ago outgrew the senate formula of two per state, which has evolved to a
we got to get some real courage and honor our immortal obligations instead of our party affiliations. enough with the counterpunching. enough of the invalidation of the other side. come to the common table that represents the american people. find a middle ground, the place where most of us americans live anyway, especially on this issue because i promise you america, you and me, we are not as divided as we re being told we are. so we don t know yet, we don t know what comes of this moment today in the white house briefing room. mcconaughey s comments might end up in the dust heap of our country s broken politics when it comes to guns or maybe, just maybe those fiery remarks which my colleague katy tur reported
in order to overcome a filibuster on this. i think those conversations are happening in earnest. but we are presuming the 52 in that situation as well. there are a lot of democrats and frankly, i m interested in hearing what your next guest has to say, on what s she we fall on the spectrum. but there are a lot of democrats that would say the way to collins murkowski planted structured would still allow for a lot of loopholes at the state level. you would still end up with an america who ends up with a lot of the states allowing accessible abortion, and then a lot of states restricted and bennett. then you end up in a situation where the supreme court ultimately decides and if it decides this way the presumption that 52 democrats can just get on board, that is not necessarily would i have been hearing from senators in the halls of congress, who did view the women s health protection act as the idea that they want to vote on. obviously, now that seems like it is on the dust heap be
but we are presuming the 52 in that situation as well. there are a lot of democrats and frankly, i m interested in hearing what your next guest has to say, on what s she we fall on the spectrum. but there are a lot of democrats that would say the way to collins murkowski planted structured would still allow for a lot of loopholes at the state level. you would still end up with an america who ends up with a lot of the states allowing accessible abortion, and then a lot of states restricted and bennett. then you end up in a situation where the supreme court ultimately decides and if it decides this way the presumption that 52 democrats can just get on board, that is not necessarily would i have been hearing from senators in the halls of congress, who did view the women s health protection act as the idea that they want to vote on. obviously, now that seems like it is on the dust heap because of the way the vote went today. but at the same, time there may be other measures, even asi